Depends on the benchmark utiliy you use--but in Sandra it makes a good bit of difference--I noticed a big speed up in transfer of files and general desktop responsiveness while rendering and encoding--seem to mee WIndows boots faster than on 1 disk. Definitely a performance increase IMO. Well worth it.

Your no more at risk of data loss with RAID as with out. With RAID, if you lose a disk your screwed. With a single drive, if you lose a drive your screwed. Looks like the same odds to me. Thats why back ups are so important. I will never not run a Raid array again

Your no more at risk of data loss with RAID as with out. With RAID, if you lose a disk your screwed. With a single drive, if you lose a drive your screwed. Looks like the same odds to me. Thats why back ups are so important. I will never not run a Raid array again

Why? You just said your self theres no difference in chances of losing data.....RAID f'ing owns dude...like I said, I'll prolly never go back.

Elmo, in HD tach, I ran a bunch of scenarios with my drives against Raptors and the differnces were'nt huge. The seek times were way better, and I know that makes a big difference, but the burst and everything was all right around mine. I'd go for the 250, and have a half terabyte of storage. I'm just gonna get a WD 250 and run it normally for storage